title: [Primary health care essential attributes and the family health strategy].
abstract: The essential attributes of Primary Health Care are attention at first contact, longitudinality, completeness and coordination, and the derived attributes are family and community orientation and cultural competence. This paper discusses the presence of such attributes in Family Health Strategy, a political and governmental proposal to change the health care model in the context of the Unified Health System in Brazil.
authors.forename: Maria Amélia de Campos
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Oliveira
authors.forename: Iara Cristina
authors.initials: IC
authors.lastname: Pereira
mesh_terms: D001938:Brazil; D005192:Family Health; D006801:Humans; D011320:Primary Health Care / Q000592:standards*